Everyone's Blog Posts - Open Access Week2016-12-10T00:18:54Zhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blog/feed?xn_auth=noCompartimos banners AA en españoltag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-31:5385115:BlogPost:1516152016-10-31T18:46:19.000ZBIBHUMAhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/BIBHUMA
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/OrO20Gk*AGpQSMSj0mLbfg891pTaCD2LBaxmNqxOX4uObRA311TTkGdsWek4AN7jq7wPtya9iKvcRxwI1ndu5Q6CtG6V-of*/introduccin001.png"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/OrO20Gk*AGpQSMSj0mLbfg891pTaCD2LBaxmNqxOX4uObRA311TTkGdsWek4AN7jq7wPtya9iKvcRxwI1ndu5Q6CtG6V-of*/introduccin001.png?width=750" width="750"/></a></p>The Emperor Has No Clothes: Predatory Publishers' Days Are Numberedtag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-30:5385115:BlogPost:1516872016-10-30T22:44:33.000ZPeaches Udomahttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/PeachesUdoma
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<p><font size="3">With the exponential growth of the Open Access movement over the past decade, it is undeniable that major steps are underway toward broadening both the reach and availability of scientific research. But not every development has been a step in the right direction, and for some, Open Access has become synonymous with negative connotations. The most notable unfortunate byproduct of the boom in numbers and access to scientific journals has been the…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">With the exponential growth of the Open Access movement over the past decade, it is undeniable that major steps are underway toward broadening both the reach and availability of scientific research. But not every development has been a step in the right direction, and for some, Open Access has become synonymous with negative connotations. The most notable unfortunate byproduct of the boom in numbers and access to scientific journals has been the dramatic rise in predatory publishing.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Predatory Publishers can be defined as any publisher that operates on an exploitative business model, which can involve, among other things, charging fees to authors and other contributors without providing adequate peer review, misrepresenting personnel affiliated with the company, misrepresenting the company’s location, contacts , addresses, not providing archiving, plagiarism-checking, and not providing professional grade editorial and publishing services on manuscripts.</font></p>
<p><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">The combination of the Open Access journal model along with an increased pressure for academics to prove their work by publishing more and being cited has created a prosperous environment for unethical practices looking to take advantage. By falsifying journal information, faking editorial board members, and hiding behind a general lack of transparency, predatory publishers have been able to prey upon the desperation of academics looking to act fast and get their names out there. </font></p>
<p><font size="3">With so many new journals flooding the field, it can be very difficult to tell the quality publishers from the fake.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">In some instances, it is the authors themselves who are taking advantage of the system for their own benefit. With such a glut of new material, plagiarism of others’ easily accessible work has skyrocketed, and self-plagiarism, where an author uses one of the author’s own previously published articles as a template for “new” work with only minor changes is increasing.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">As part of a mounting backlash against such practices, a growing movement on social media platforms works to highlight and inform the public on the actions and methods of predatory publishers. The twitter hash-tag #<i>predatorypublishing</i> has been effective in spreading the message through current events and academic articles relating to deceitful open access trends. Facebook is also becoming an instrumental battleground in addressing predatory publishing culture, with a dedicated watchdog group with more than 500 members that works to spread awareness of the problem and practices to academics from countries and backgrounds that might otherwise not know of such dangers.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">The open platform of social media and blogs is helping academics to identify and root out the culprits. One of the most prominent leaders of this effort is Jeffrey Beall, a librarian and professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. His vigilant commentary on the scientific publishing field help many to stay abreast of the changes and developments at work, but perhaps his most important contribution has been in creating and maintaining a list of known predatory publishers for all to reference. Beall has established 52 criteria for determining if a publisher qualifies as predatory. These conditions range from distributing spam emails to falsifying details of journals’ editorial personnel. </font></p>
<p><font size="3">The open access movement in academic publishing is in a state of flux. The boom in growth, awareness, and access is founded in the needed press for all researchers to have a voice and platform through which to be heard and to learn. In time, a push for standards will establish an ethical and balanced playing field, and as more of these predatory publishers are identified every year, the honest and high-quality open access journals and publishers will become even more vital. </font></p>
<p></p>PLOS is Open in Actiontag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-28:5385115:BlogPost:1515782016-10-28T17:18:17.000ZAllison Hawxhursthttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/AllisonHawxhurst
<p><b>J</b>oin PLOS in celebrating Open Access Week by being <a href="http://plos.io/2dCEpO0">Open in Action</a>!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Register for an <a href="https://www.plos.org/orcid?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">ORCiD ID</a></strong> – distinguish yourself and create a record of your scholarly contributions.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Join the conversation – </strong> on <a href="http://plos.io/AMAnext">PLOS Science Wednesday</a> – the Ask Me Anything…</li>
</ul>
<p><b>J</b>oin PLOS in celebrating Open Access Week by being <a href="http://plos.io/2dCEpO0">Open in Action</a>!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Register for an <a href="https://www.plos.org/orcid?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">ORCiD ID</a></strong> – distinguish yourself and create a record of your scholarly contributions.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Join the conversation – </strong> on <a href="http://plos.io/AMAnext">PLOS Science Wednesday</a> – the Ask Me Anything (AMA) series on redditscience.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Explore <a href="http://researchnews.plos.org/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">PLOS Research News</a></strong>, featuring <a href="http://researchnews.plos.org/category/author-interview/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">author interviews</a>, <a href="http://researchnews.plos.org/category/video-highlights/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">video highlights</a>, <a href="http://researchnews.plos.org/category/new-research/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">new research</a> and<a href="http://researchnews.plos.org/category/news-summaries/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">summaries</a> of newly published PLOS articles.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Get a sneak peak of PLOS’ upcoming projects</strong> with PLOS Publisher Louise Page in this OpenCon 2016 Community <a href="http://plos.io/2e3YkBf">Webcast</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Listen to a special episode of <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/plospodcasts/2016/10/24/the-power-of-preprints-an-interview-with-james-fraser/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">PLOScast</a></strong> – a podcast focused on science, academia and the future of scholarship – featuring UCSF’s James Fraser discussing the use of preprints in the life sciences.</li>
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<li><strong>Learn more about posting articles before formal peer review</strong> in The Official PLOS Blog’s <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2016/10/the-best-of-both-worlds-preprints-and-journals/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">The Best of Both Worlds: Preprints and Journals</a>.</li>
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<li><strong>Meet PLOS staff and editors at <a href="https://www.plos.org/svp-2016?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">SVP</a> or <a href="https://www.plos.org/igem-2016?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">iGEM</a></strong> – stop by the booth, learn more about Open Access publishing and pick up a giveaway.</li>
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<li><strong>Browse the <a href="http://collections.plos.org/s/open-highlights?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">Open Highlights Collection</a></strong>, with research from across PLOS journals and the wider Open Access literature curated by staff editors to provide depth of coverage on select topics.</li>
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<li><strong>Share your work with the world by publishing with PLOS</strong> – see <a href="https://www.plos.org/which-journal-is-right-for-me?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">which journal</a> is the right fit for your work or <a href="https://www.plos.org/search?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">search PLOS articles</a> to see where your colleagues are publishing. Some special calls for submission include: <a href="http://collections.plos.org/bridging-communities?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">Co- and Polymicrobial Infections</a>, <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2016/10/18/trauma-a-neglected-global-disease-a-call-for-papers-on-prevention-management-and-the-acute-response-to-injury/?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">Trauma—Prevention, Management and the Acute Response to Injury</a> and <a href="https://www.plos.org/microbiology?utm_source=plos&amp;utm_medium=opb&amp;utm_campaign=plos-1610-oaw">Microbiology</a>.</li>
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<li><strong>Stay in touch with PLOS</strong> – Get <a href="http://plos.io/2dCDFbu">updates</a>, <a href="http://plos.io/2egJuZV">eTOCs</a> and follow PLOS on <a href="http://plos.io/1M7V3Ok">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://plos.io/2eBVrtP">Facebook</a>.</li>
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<p>Have a great Open Access Week!</p>Take Action with the new Open Access Buttontag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-28:5385115:BlogPost:1514662016-10-28T12:31:14.000ZChealsye Bowleyhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/ChealsyeBowley
<p dir="ltr"><span>What better way to take action during Open Access Week than by starting a request for an article or dataset you need? The Open Access Button is here to help!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The Open Access Button has released a new Button for Open Access Week - a simpler, more effective way to get find and request research with the press of a button.</span></p>
<p><img class="align-right" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NN_HxGqsNg-juF2W3JN3WEUe0bOiGa_YuLMz3L6TrhflGcXYXMPL7wxMvpYjJcssx1GazuZbQOs9rPqDYN-38LnvI9DfVtiN6bCtKdh54u7ulVB3Xz3oQnMhnGy2co12mdhZFzax?width=200" width="200"></img></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>Find and request articles and…</strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>What better way to take action during Open Access Week than by starting a request for an article or dataset you need? The Open Access Button is here to help!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The Open Access Button has released a new Button for Open Access Week - a simpler, more effective way to get find and request research with the press of a button.</span></p>
<p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NN_HxGqsNg-juF2W3JN3WEUe0bOiGa_YuLMz3L6TrhflGcXYXMPL7wxMvpYjJcssx1GazuZbQOs9rPqDYN-38LnvI9DfVtiN6bCtKdh54u7ulVB3Xz3oQnMhnGy2co12mdhZFzax?width=200" width="200" class="align-right"/></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>Find and request articles and data</strong><strong><br/></strong></span>The Open Data Button has now been combined with the Open Access Button. Now you can find and request both articles and data in one great service instead of making separate searches and requests.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span class="font-size-4"><strong><span class="font-size-5">Find and request research in your browser</span><br/></strong></span>Don't want to install the plugin? No problem! You can now use the Button in your browser. You simply submit a URL on the <a href="http://openaccessbutton.org/request/new">Browser Button page</a> - the Button will search for an available copy of the article or data. If we are unable to get you immediate access, you can submit a request.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><span class="font-size-5"><strong>Give it a Try</strong></span><br/></span>You can install the new Chrome plugin or bookmarklet to any browser now or try out the <a href="http://openaccessbutton.org/request/new">Browser Button</a>. A Firefox plugin will be released soon next week.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Give the Button a test run! Go to the</span> <a href="http://openaccessbutton.org/request/new"><span>Browser Button page</span></a> <span>and paste the URL of the article you need access to in the URL field. If you are looking for data, use the the URL of the corresponding article. If you don’t have an article you need right now, a great sample article to test the Button is</span> <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/293/5530/629"><span>Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems</span></a><span>. Submit this URL</span> <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/293/5530/629"><span>http://science.sciencemag.org/content/293/5530/629</span></a> <span>on</span> <a href="http://openaccessbutton.org/request/new"><span>Browser Button page</span></a> <span>to test out the new Button.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>We’re excited about all these improvements, but we’d love to know what you think! Let us know what you think on</span> <a href="http://twitter.com/oa_button"><span>Twitter</span></a> <span>or send us an email at hello@openaccessbutton.org.</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>Introducing oaDOI: resolve a DOI straight to OAtag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-28:5385115:BlogPost:1516452016-10-28T11:30:00.000ZThe Impactstory teamhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/TheImpactstoryteam
<p><span><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3664">Most papers</a> that are free-to-read are available thanks to “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Self-archiving:_green_open_access">green OA</a>” copies posted in institutional or subject repositories. The fact these copies are available for free is fantastic because anyone can read the research, but it does present a major challenge: given the DOI of a paper, how can we find the open version, given there are so many different…</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3664">Most papers</a> that are free-to-read are available thanks to “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Self-archiving:_green_open_access">green OA</a>” copies posted in institutional or subject repositories. The fact these copies are available for free is fantastic because anyone can read the research, but it does present a major challenge: given the DOI of a paper, how can we find the open version, given there are so many different repositories?</span></p>
<p><span>The obvious answer is “Google Scholar” :) And yup, that works great, and given the resources of Google will probably always be the most comprehensive solution. But Google’s interface requires an extra search step, and its data isn’t open for others to build tools on top of.</span></p>
<p><span>We made a thing to fix that. Introducing oaDOI:</span></p>
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<li><span>DOI gets you a paywall page: </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3260"><b>doi.org</b><span>/10.1038/ng.3260</span></a></li>
<li><span>oaDOI gets you a PDF: </span><a href="http://oadoi.org/10.1038/ng.3260"><b>oadoi.org</b><span>/10.1038/ng.3260</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p><span><a href="http://i1.wp.com/blog.impactstory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-25-at-9.07.11-AM.png?resize=412%2C180" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/blog.impactstory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-25-at-9.07.11-AM.png?w=689&amp;width=412" width="412" class="align-right"/></a></span></p>
<p><span>We look for open copies of articles using the following data sources:</span></p>
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<li><span>The </span><a href="https://doaj.org/">Directory of Open Access Journals</a><span> to see if it’s in their index of OA journals.</span></li>
<li><a href="http://crossref.org/">CrossRef’s</a><span> license metadata field, to see if the publisher has reported an open license.</span></li>
<li><span>Our own custom list DOI prefixes, to see if it’s in a known preprint repository.</span></li>
<li><a href="http://datacite.org/">DataCite</a><span>, to see if it’s an open dataset.</span></li>
<li><span>The wonderful </span><a href="https://www.base-search.net/">BASE OA search engine</a><span> to see if there’s a Green OA copy of the article. BASE indexes 90mil+ open documents in 4000+ repositories by harvesting OAI-PMH metadata.</span></li>
<li><span>Repository pages directly, in cases where BASE was unable to determine openness.</span></li>
<li><span>Journal article pages directly, to see if there’s a free PDF link (this is great for detecting hybrid OA)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span>oaDOI was inspired by the really cool </span><a href="http://doai.io/">DOAI</a><span>. oaDOI is a wrapper around the </span><a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/find-and-reward-open-access/">OA detection used by Impactstory</a><span>. It’s </span><a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/find-and-reward-open-access/">open source</a><span> of course, can be used as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/oaDOI_org/status/790637734305996800">a lookup engine in Zotero</a><span>, and has an </span><a href="http://oadoi.org/api">easy and powerful API</a><span> that returns license data and other good stuff.</span></p>
<p><span>Try it out at <a href="http://oadoi.org/">oadoi.org</a>, let us know what you think (</span><a href="http://twitter.com/oadoi_org">@oadoi_org</a><span>), and help us spread the word!</span></p>
<p></p>How do you stay on top of the latest research and developments in your field? We want to know!tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-28:5385115:BlogPost:1513442016-10-28T07:00:00.000ZEmilie Wilsonhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/EmilieWilson
<p><strong>At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), we are running a short survey asking people about: </strong></p>
<p>1. How do you access and consume research or information to help you with your work or studies?</p>
<p>2. Have you ever read our flagship publication, the <em>IDS Bulletin</em>? We want to know what you think!</p>
<p>3. What are your attitudes (and prejudices?) towards Open Access academic publishing?…</p>
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<p><strong>At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), we are running a short survey asking people about: </strong></p>
<p>1. How do you access and consume research or information to help you with your work or studies?</p>
<p>2. Have you ever read our flagship publication, the <em>IDS Bulletin</em>? We want to know what you think!</p>
<p>3. What are your attitudes (and prejudices?) towards Open Access academic publishing?</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://ids.typeform.com/to/EGMYXH" target="_blank">Please take part in our survey</a>.</span></p>
<p><strong>We will share the results here.</strong></p>
<p></p>"The Size of the Prize": Hidden Benefits of Open Data?tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-27:5385115:BlogPost:1512312016-10-27T22:00:00.000ZPeaches Udomahttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/PeachesUdoma
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">There is no question that Open Data brings enormous value to the scientific community worldwide. But Open Data can also provide myriad benefits to society at large, including significant economic growth in the private…</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">There is no question that Open Data brings enormous value to the scientific community worldwide. But Open Data can also provide myriad benefits to society at large, including significant economic growth in the private sector. That might seem counterintuitive in the business world, where proprietary information and “intellectual property” are zealously guarded. Yet it is the unmistakable conclusion of a study conducted by Capgemini Consulting for the European Data Portal (EDP).</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">The study, “Creating Value through Open Data,” provides compelling evidence of wide-ranging benefits accrued through the re-use of Open Data. And it confirms the wisdom of legislation that the European Union (EU28+) adopted in 2003, encouraging member states to pool metadata through the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">Among the study’s findings is that member nations will gain almost 25,000 private-sector jobs by 2020 directly related to Open Data. As the data pool broadens and deepens, there’s an ever-greater demand for workers with the education, skills, and training necessary to manage it. In addition, by making this vast new pool of metadata easily accessible, the PSI Directive fosters innovation in a variety of industries, along with the development of new business models.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">Open Data also provides benefits that transcend monetary value. Consider: The EDP study has concluded that access to Open Data leads to increased efficiency of public services, including traffic management. That could translate not only to improvements in the quality of life (the EDP study estimated that drivers could spend 629 million hours fewer hours per year stuck in traffic across the EU), but also to the actual preservation of life (improved traffic flow could result in 1,425 fewer fatalities per year in highway accidents).</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">The study also found that as many as 7,000 lives per year could be saved via quicker responses to medical emergencies that require resuscitation.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">Among the study’s other notable conclusions is that “the workforce should be empowered to make the most of Open Data.” For that to occur, however, workers must have the necessary Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills. The current supply of recent graduates with such skills cannot meet the demand. That speaks to a need for universities to emphasize the importance of a baseline ICT education, regardless of a student’s professional aspirations.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">Finally, the study emphasizes the importance of standardizing the way Open Data is analyzed, interpreted, and compared across different agencies and governments. In short, all countries need to use the same measuring stick. Only then can we collectively determine what a World Bank report on Open Data’s economic impact aptly termed “The Size of the Potential Prize.”</font></span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">Check out Scholastica and Authorea's slideshow on how scholars and journals can use preprints to make research more accessible: </span><a href="http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/slideshow-oa-preprints-scholars-journals/" target="_blank" style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/slideshow-oa-preprints-scholars-journals/</a></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">In what ways are scholars and journals using preprints to make research more freely accessible? How are new uses of preprints changing the academic publishing landscape? This Open Access Week, Scholastica and Authorea are exploring these questions and more.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="//www.slideshare.net/dpadula/open-access-preprints-for-scholars-and-journals" title="Open Access + Preprints for Scholars and Journals " target="_blank"></a></strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">The Scholastica Team is excited to have partnered with Authorea on our recent eBook,</span> <em style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a href="http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/open-access-preprints-free-ebook/" target="_blank">Open Access + Preprints: Journals and scholars take action</a></strong></em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">. To make the contents of the eBook even more digestible, we've also converted portions of it into a slideshow, which is available on the</span> <a href="http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/slideshow-oa-preprints-scholars-journals/" target="_blank" style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">Scholastica blog</a><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>Prioritizing Open Science in the Next Administrationtag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-27:5385115:BlogPost:1512782016-10-27T14:00:00.000ZKatherine Garciahttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/KatherineGarcia
<p>During the last eight years, the Obama Administration has embodied this year’s theme of “Open in Action.” The president and his team came into office with a strong public commitment to open government, and have demonstrated a commitment to open science as part of that agenda. As we approach the 2016 presidential election, the <a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/">Center for Open Data Enterprise</a>, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, is working to ensure that open science…</p>
<p>During the last eight years, the Obama Administration has embodied this year’s theme of “Open in Action.” The president and his team came into office with a strong public commitment to open government, and have demonstrated a commitment to open science as part of that agenda. As we approach the 2016 presidential election, the <a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/">Center for Open Data Enterprise</a>, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, is working to ensure that open science remains a priority for the next administration.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/transition-report.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/w9vi0ysetDpEFgdIFaCQacw5PEWb8JGMOdXdfHXOYWzm32seAdQYTBnOA4vPb8*0MQv8EfyBVlhfS9azWGo4xqWPa8mXrQRW/transitionreportcover.jpg?width=300" width="300" class="align-right" style="padding: 5px;"/></a></span>In any U.S. presidential transition, outside experts and stakeholders play an important advisory role. Their expertise is especially critical when technical or scientific issues are involved. The Center conferred with over 50 experts to develop an <a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/transition-report.html" target="_blank">Open Data Transition Report</a>, with 27 recommendations designed to be of value to the next president, his or her transition teams, and government agencies and departments in the next administration. The recommendations are meant to advance the goal of “Open in Action”: they are all designed to make an impact within the administration’s first year, and many can be accomplished in the first 100 days.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The report’s recommendations are targeted to four key goals:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Goal I:</strong> <span>Enhance the government open data ecosystem - The next administration should enhance the open data ecosystem by developing a strong data infrastructure across government, including appropriate personnel, policies, and coordination efforts.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Goal II:</strong> <span>Deliver direct benefits to citizens and communities - The next administration should identify the major challenges impacting American communities and leverage open data to address them.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Goal III:</strong> <span>Share scientific research data to spur innovation and scientific discovery - Working with the research community, the next administration should develop policy and technology solutions to make open, shared research data the norm.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Goal IV:</strong> <span>Help businesses and entrepreneurs use government data as a resource - The next administration should help businesses by making it easier to access valuable government data and simpler to report data to regulatory agencies.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Goal III includes a series of recommendations that promote open science and open data access for academic institutions, researchers and scientists, and students. By ensuring research data is open and reusable, the scientific community can more easily validate existing research, build off of one another’s findings, and drive new discoveries. A brief preview of the six research data recommendations in the report is listed below.</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Establish a Federal Research Data Council to expand current cross-government efforts to promote open science, foster new government open research initiatives, and partner with research institutions to support data sharing and collaboration. <a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/recommendations/rec17.html" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span>Partner with research communities around the world to establish international standards across disciplines and organizations focused on Arctic research building on the momentum from the White House Arctic Science Ministerial. <a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/recommendations/rec21.html" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0df7e870-0182-16b7-eab7-a71cfc4dd8e9"><span>The full collection of recommendations demonstrate how the next administration can achieve policy and programmatic gains for each of the key beneficiaries of open data policy: government, citizens and communities, research, and businesses. We invite you to read the full report at </span><a href="http://opendataenterprise.org/transition-report"><span>opendataenterprise.org/transition-report</span></a><span>.</span></span></p>COAPI: Making Open Access Policies Worktag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-27:5385115:BlogPost:1508462016-10-27T13:00:00.000ZCOAPI Steering Committeehttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/COAPISteeringCommittee
<p>The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) is a membership organization that has been working since 2011 to advance the promotion, passage, and implementation of Open Access policies at institutions of higher education. Membership in COAPI now includes 85 institutions. Membership carries no dues and is open to all North American institutions with policies in place, or those working to pass policies. The COAPI website at (…</p>
<p>The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) is a membership organization that has been working since 2011 to advance the promotion, passage, and implementation of Open Access policies at institutions of higher education. Membership in COAPI now includes 85 institutions. Membership carries no dues and is open to all North American institutions with policies in place, or those working to pass policies. The COAPI website at (<a href="http://sparcopen.org/coapi/">http://sparcopen.org/coapi/</a>) includes the list of member institutions, with links to policy language.</p>
<p><b>Open Access Policies: Why?</b></p>
<p>Some ask “Why pass an Open Access policy? Why not just do this work without a university or departmental policy? COAPI has created a video (<a href="http://sparcopen.org/coapi/">http://sparcopen.org/coapi/</a>) that explains: “Many scholars are taking action by creating Open Access policies in institutions worldwide. These policies ensure that faculty have the legal right to distribute their research as they see fit, without publisher restrictions. Open Access policies do not dictate where faculty should publish, and never require payment to participate. Instead, policies empower scholars to make their publications freely available through institutional Open Access repositories, enabling access for students, scholars and the public.” COAPI institution faculty and students open up more of their scholarship to the world each day.</p>
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<li>the immediate and barrier-free online dissemination of scholarly research resulting in faster growth of new knowledge, increased impact of research, and improved return on public research investments,</li>
<li>developing and implementing institutional open access policies,</li>
<li>sharing experiences and best practices in the development and implementation of Open Access policies with individuals at institutions interested in cultivating cultures of open access, and</li>
<li>fostering a more open scholarly communication system through cultural and legislative change at the local, national, and international levels colleagues representing universities that are developing, have passed, or are implementing Open Access policies.</li>
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<p>Development and implementation of Open Access policies usually falls to the university library, and those tasked with this work can find a community of practice in the group of dedicated individuals that make up COAPI. COAPI members, while moving their own institutions’ policy work forward also have a collective focus on increasing the amount of open access literature available to readers and researchers around the world. The journey of working on an institutional open access policy, through passage of a policy by the appropriate university governance group to full implementation, can be a long one, and other COAPI members are always ready to assist by sharing a similar experience, providing useful documentation, or offering suggestions for responding to questions from faculty. COAPI is an organization that is growing while working with others on the “open” future that is being created, one policy and one paper at a time.</p>
<p><b>Getting Started</b></p>
<p>When institutions and individuals start thinking about developing an open access policy, where do they start? Many find a helpful roadmap in Stuart Shieber and Peter Suber’s regularly updated guide, “Good Practices for Open Access Policies.” <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies">https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies</a></p>
<p>Beyond the excellent published resources available, the development of an organization around open access policymaking has proven very valuable. Many representatives of COAPI institutions are scholarly communication librarians, repository specialists, or experts on open access. There are very few issues that this group has not, cannot, or will not tackle in moving OA policies forward. When passing a policy, for an institution new to such work, it also inspires confidence in the faculty audiences voting for an open access policy that there exists a dedicated organization of peer institutions that form a consulting group around best practices.</p>
<p>COAPI also develops tools and resources to assist others in open access policy work. For example, the COAPI Toolkit (<a href="https://osf.io/vhw6d/">https://osf.io/vhw6d/</a>) has been developed where members are sharing resources and important documentation that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. COAPI also is poised to respond to any actions that are relevant to institutional Open Access policies, such as federal legislation or specific publisher initiatives that create impediments for open access policy work. Examples of these actions would be the formal response from COAPI to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy’s 2012 Request for Information, and COAPI’s June 13, 2012 letter submitted in support of FRPAA.</p>
<p>COAPI is assisted in its mission by SPARC, and often COAPI gatherings can be found associated with SPARC meetings. For further information about COAPI, please contact us at <a href="mailto:COAPI@sparcopen.org">COAPI@sparcopen.org</a></p>
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<p><strong>This year's International Open Access Week theme feels appropriate to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) own open access endeavours over the course of 2016 which include re-launching its flagship publication as an open access journal, celebrating 20 years of the development portal Eldis and enhancing OpenDocs, our e-repository of development research. …</strong></p>
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<p><strong>This year's International Open Access Week theme feels appropriate to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) own open access endeavours over the course of 2016 which include re-launching its flagship publication as an open access journal, celebrating 20 years of the development portal Eldis and enhancing OpenDocs, our e-repository of development research. </strong></p>
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<p>Earlier this year, we <a href="http://www.ids.ac.uk/news/re-launched-ids-bulletin-aspires-to-transform-development-knowledge" target="_blank">re-launched our flagship publication</a>, the <em>IDS Bulletin</em>, as a gold open access journal. Not only did we want all future issues to be “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” but we also committed to making the <em>IDS Bulletin</em> entire back catalogue, going back almost fifty years, available online. We even built the <a href="http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo" target="_blank">new IDS Bulletin website</a> using the open source software <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/" target="_blank">Open Journal Systems</a>, contributing new code as we tailored the software to our own unique needs. </p>
<p>Our goal was not just open up access to our research for readers. We also want to the <em>IDS Bulletin</em> to be a vehicle for profiling researchers from the global South. </p>
<p>Currently, scholarly publishing is <a href="http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/development-journals-northern-scholars.html" target="_blank">dominated by northern scholars</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gray-area.co.za/" target="_blank">South African open access campaigner, Eve Gray</a>, who is a member of the new <em>IDS Bulletin</em> editorial board, <a href="http://www.impactandlearning.org/2012/10/eve-gray-talks-about-why-open-access-is.html" target="_blank">once said</a>:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #888888;">“In the scholarly world, Africa is silenced by a publishing system which doesn’t give it voice”. </span></strong></p>
<p>Open access itself can contribute to this exclusion since, if the reader isn’t paying to access the article, than it’s often the author who is paying to have it published. Journals can charge “Article Processing Fees” of up to $3,000, a sum that is completely out of reach to most scholars from the global South. As well as proactively seeking contributions from authors based in the global South, the new <em>IDS Bulletin</em> also had to develop a different business model than that of most open access journals.</p>
<p>The results of re-launching as an open access journal are beginning to speak for themselves: <br/>• Article download figures more than tripled since the <em>IDS Bulletin</em> went open access<br/>• New issues and articles have been widely shared on social media, reviewed on blogs and shared by email <br/>• Forty per cent of the articles published in the last ten issues were written by Southern contributors including from Afghanistan, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya and Mexico.<br/><br/><span class="font-size-4">Information and knowledge experts gather to celebrate Eldis 20th Anniversary</span> <br/>Renowned <a href="http://www.eldis.org/" target="_blank">development portal, Eldis</a>, which is hosted by IDS, celebrated its 20th anniversary this year.</p>
<p>Over half a million users visit the site every year and more than 50% of our regular visitors are based in developing countries. Additionally, all of its content is Open Licensed so that it can be re-used by anyone that needs it. Website managers, applications developers and Open Data enthusiasts can all re-use Eldis content to enhance their own services or develop new tools. See our <a href="http://www.eldis.org/go/get-the-data#.WBHrNuaQyUk" target="_blank">Get the Data page</a> for more information.</p>
<p>As part of the celebrations, the Eldis team held a two-day workshop around the theme “Learning form 20 years of digital knowledge sharing for global development”.</p>
<p>Distinguished speakers included Williams Nwagwu from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), who spoke on CODESRIA’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATTGCPD84k" target="_blank">African open access project</a>, and knowledge ecologist, Sarah Cummings, who spoke on t<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdtP1aXInTk" target="_blank">he SDGs and local knowledge for development</a>. <br/> <br/><span class="font-size-4">British Library for Development Studies further enhances e-repository OpenDocs</span> <br/>The <a href="http://blds.ids.ac.uk/" target="_blank">British Library for Development Studies (BLDS)</a>, based at IDS, has been working hard behind the scenes to drive the development and enhancement of <a href="https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/" target="_blank">OpenDocs, an open access e-repository of development research</a>.</p>
<p>New enhancements include the ability to “stream” PDFs, which means users with low-bandwidth with another way of accessing the full text without downloading it, and support for the <a href="http://rioxx.net/" target="_blank">RIOXX metadata framework</a> which will help OpenDocs comply with the Research Councils UK policy on open access. In due course, OpenDocs will also integrate with the <a href="http://orcid.org/" target="_blank">ORCID systems</a>, which provides researchers with unique identifiers, solving current problems with author disambiguation.</p>
<p>The BLDS digital library, a collection on OpenDocs, continues to be a much used resource as can be seen by the download numbers that are still growing year on year by 30-40 %. Additionally, institutions such as the <a href="http://www.acbf-pact.org/" target="_blank">African Capacity Building Foundation</a> and the <a href="http://www.zipar.org.zm/" target="_blank">Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research</a> have continued to deposit key publications into the digital library even after project funding to support this has come to an end.</p>
<p>In the long-term, BLDS will be establishing an open access research data repository to compliment OpenDocs which is a publications repository, and will be working with colleagues at IDS on how to manage publications through OpenDocs which were originally published or being published through Gold Open Access<br/><br/></p>Open Access (OA) increases article citation ratetag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-27:5385115:BlogPost:1511082016-10-27T04:49:11.000ZNader Ale Ebrahimhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/NaderAleEbrahim
With overwhelming thousands of online journals daily, many scholarly articles simply never reach their intended audience and consequently fail to generate the impact they deserve. Traditionally, scholarly publishers ensured the visibility of an authors’ work by circulating print journals to targeted readers. But fewer people are reading print journals anymore and as content continues to migrate from print to online — how can researchers optimize electronic distribution of content? A simple…
With overwhelming thousands of online journals daily, many scholarly articles simply never reach their intended audience and consequently fail to generate the impact they deserve. Traditionally, scholarly publishers ensured the visibility of an authors’ work by circulating print journals to targeted readers. But fewer people are reading print journals anymore and as content continues to migrate from print to online — how can researchers optimize electronic distribution of content? A simple answer is: The most well known way of getting your paper cited is publishing a paper in a Open Access journal based on disciplinary reputation or with a high impact factor.<br />
Increased access =&gt; Increased downloads =&gt; Increased citations =&gt; Increased impact!Buyer Beware: Are Some Impact Factors Wolves in Sheep's Clothing?tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-27:5385115:BlogPost:1511832016-10-27T01:36:23.000ZPeaches Udomahttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/PeachesUdoma
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">One of the most important distinctions of an academic journal is the rate at which its articles are cited and shared by other academics in a particular year. In academia, this is called the "impact factor." The impact factor of a journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. The higher a journal’s impact factor, the better the chance that the…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">One of the most important distinctions of an academic journal is the rate at which its articles are cited and shared by other academics in a particular year. In academia, this is called the "impact factor." The impact factor of a journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. The higher a journal’s impact factor, the better the chance that the articles will be circulated and the journal read.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">It is best used as a broad measure of a journal’s validity, not necessarily used on an article-by-article basis. Newer journals can only receive a valid impact factor after three years of publication. It is important to note that citation analysis is affected by field-dependent factors, which make comparisons across disciplines or between fields of research hard to validate.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">But even with its limitations, impact factors remain the standard means the scientific publishing community currently has for comparing and highlighting the selective importance of certain research articles.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Unfortunately, along with the influx of predatory publications, the scientific community has seen the recent rise of fake impact factor companies, which attempt to manipulate impact factor numbers for selected publications. While falsifying a journal’s data may produce short-term results, using phony impact factors will eventually lead to permanent damage of a journal’s, publisher's, and sometimes even an unwitting writer’s, reputation throughout the field.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">As the world of Open Access continues to evolve and expand, falsified impact factor companies will continue to spring up and manipulate metrics to turn a profit. If enough of these companies form and operate undetected, it could significantly slow the successful progress of the Open Access movement and undermine the validity and purpose of impact factors in the first place. A key component of improving Open Access articles in the future is maintaining quality control. This is especially important in the scientific community, where new research can have a major impact on the global community.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Jeffrey Beall – a librarian and professor at the University of Colorado, Denver – is a leader in the academic watchdog community that works to monitor and identify these sham impact factor companies. He also runs and regularly updates a blog, <i>Scholarly Open Access</i>, which identifies more than a thousand publishers that he considers predatory and welcomes reactions from readers of the blog.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Although Open Access has come a long way since the movement began, predatory companies and an influx of false data provide serious obstacles to its progression. As long as sham impact factor companies attempt to skew the metrics of academic journals to turn a profit, academic watchdogs like Beall, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) are vital to keeping these corrupt influences in check. The more these unethical companies that can be identified and dismantled, the higher our quality of shared research and scientific discourse can be.</span></p>
<p></p>L’EAPC aposta per la recerca en accés oberttag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-26:5385115:BlogPost:1512702016-10-26T13:00:51.000ZEscla d'Administració Pública dehttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/EscladAdministracioPublicade
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/w9vi0ysetDqUnZ2MlLYZa588v8F0otk5bL1YsyEuIM5yrBYHm5brbvJWdbPPkZYD3R2SZYNiBgKJNrUEdyFXJwlvTymz-PiP/berbatimopenaccess.png" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/w9vi0ysetDqUnZ2MlLYZa588v8F0otk5bL1YsyEuIM5yrBYHm5brbvJWdbPPkZYD3R2SZYNiBgKJNrUEdyFXJwlvTymz-PiP/berbatimopenaccess.png" width="225"></img></a> Del 24 al 30 d’octubre se celebra la vuitena edició de l’<a href="http://openaccessweek.org/">Open Acces Week</a>, un esdeveniment d’abast mundial que promociona l’accés obert al coneixement científic que es produeix arreu del món. Des de l’Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya ens sumem a aquesta…</p>
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/w9vi0ysetDqUnZ2MlLYZa588v8F0otk5bL1YsyEuIM5yrBYHm5brbvJWdbPPkZYD3R2SZYNiBgKJNrUEdyFXJwlvTymz-PiP/berbatimopenaccess.png" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/w9vi0ysetDqUnZ2MlLYZa588v8F0otk5bL1YsyEuIM5yrBYHm5brbvJWdbPPkZYD3R2SZYNiBgKJNrUEdyFXJwlvTymz-PiP/berbatimopenaccess.png" width="225" class="align-left"/></a>Del 24 al 30 d’octubre se celebra la vuitena edició de l’<a href="http://openaccessweek.org/">Open Acces Week</a>, un esdeveniment d’abast mundial que promociona l’accés obert al coneixement científic que es produeix arreu del món. Des de l’Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya ens sumem a aquesta celebració. L’Escola contribueix a l’accés obert al coneixement, ja que les seves dues revistes científiques –La <i>Revista catalana de dret públic</i> i la <i>Revista de Llengua i Dret, Journal of Language and Law</i>– es publiquen en accés obert.</p>
<p>L’accés obert es defineix com l’accés lliure, immediat, sense restriccions i en línia de material acadèmic, principalment aquell que prové de publicacions de recerca científica especialitzada amb avaluació per experts. L’accés obert té el poder de transformar la investigació i la recerca científica, gràcies a ampliar el coneixement de què es disposa, el que facilita els avenços científics.</p>
<p>L’Open Acces és una tendència que s’està implantant cada vegada més arreu del món, com ho demostra el creixement experimentat pel <a href="https://doaj.org/">DOAJ</a> (Directory of Open Access Journal). Es tracta d’un directori on es poden trobar prop de 10.000 revistes científiques de 128 països, el que dóna accés a més de 2.300.000 articles científics.</p>
<p>L’Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya publica dues revistes científiques en accés obert: d’una banda, la <a href="http://revistes.eapc.gencat.cat/index.php/rcdp/index">Revista catalana de dret públic</a>, fundada el 1985 i amb 52 números publicats amb periodicitat semestral, publica aportacions relacionades amb qualssevol de les disciplines del dret públic; de l’altra, la <a href="http://revistes.eapc.gencat.cat/index.php/rld">Revista de Llengua i Dret</a>, Journal of Language and Law, igualment de publicació semestral, es va fundar l’any 1983 i publica estudis acadèmics sobre el llenguatge administratiu i jurídic, el dret lingüístic, la política lingüística i la sociolingüística.</p>
<p>Ambdues revistes es publiquen utilitzant per a la seva elaboració l’Open Journal System (OJS), una aplicació de software lliure que n’assegura l’accessibilitat dels continguts i la transparència en el procés d’edició, com també l’avaluació cega dels articles –revisats per experts a doble cec– cosa que n’assegura la selecció dels articles publicats.</p>
<p>També ambdues estan indexades a DOAJ i als principals directoris i bases de dades científics en els seus àmbits respectius. Recentment, han estat <a href="http://eapc.gencat.cat/ca/detalls/Noticia/2016_revistes_cientifiques_esci">incorporades a l’Emerging Sources Citation Index</a>, una nova base de dades elaborada per Thomson Reuters, editora de <a href="http://ipscience.thomsonreuters.com/">Web of Science</a>, un dels directoris científics més prestigiosos del món.</p>
<p>L’Escola, amb les dues revistes que edita, contribueix a la generació i difusió de coneixement en els seus àmbits respectius d’especialització i a la millora de les nostres administracions públiques. Els beneficis de publicar recerca en accés obert són diversos: d’una banda, l’accessibilitat del coneixement permet que altres investigadors hi accedeixin sense restriccions i utilitzin aquest coneixement per als seus treballs de recerca. D’aquesta manera, la creació de nou coneixement s’accelera i augmenta de forma exponencial.</p>
<p>D’altra banda, amb l’accés obert, també es permet aquest l’accés a qualsevol professional, tant de l’àmbit públic com del sector privat, fet que contribueix a la millora de la gestió pública i també d’empreses i serveis professionals. Això repercuteix en un benefici per al conjunt del país.</p>
<p>Finalment, l’accés obert també permet accedir al coneixement a qualsevol ciutadà que pugui estar-hi interessat. En temps en què la transparència és un valor a l’alça, donar accés a la ciutadania al coneixement que contribueix a generar amb els seus impostos no és una qüestió menor.</p>
<p>No obstant això, l’accés obert pot tenir alguns riscos, especialment en el sector privat. Com en tants altres àmbits, la tecnologia ha generat innovacions disruptives que han posat en qüestió els models de negoci de les empreses, també en el de l’edició de revistes científiques.</p>
<p> Tradicionalment, aquestes revistes es finançaven mitjançant la subscripció dels lectors. Amb l’accés obert, aquest model de negoci ha entrat en crisi, de manera que s’han establert diferents tipus de models de negoci que han configurat dues vies diferenciades de publicació en accés obert: la via verda, en què l’autor publica en una revista de pagament tradicional, però al mateix temps publica en accés obert en un repositori institucional (normalment després d’un període d’embargament pactat amb la revista editora); i la via daurada, que suposa que la revista editora ja és d’accés obert. En aquest últim cas, és l’autor, o l’entitat finançadora de la recerca qui finança la revista, pagant per publicar-hi. En aquest segon cas, els possibles conflictes d’interessos, o la desigualtat d’oportunitats a l’hora de publicar-hi són riscos que no es poden descartar.</p>
<p>En aquest sentit, les revistes editades per entitats públiques com l’Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya, poden tenir en compte exclusivament criteris de qualitat i interès científic, sense les interferències que es puguin produir per motius econòmics.</p>
<p>La nostra missió com a sector públic és generar i difondre coneixement i posar-lo a l’abast d’investigadors, professionals i ciutadania en general per al benefici comú. L’accés obert, a l’igual que altres tendències actuals com les dades obertes o la transparència, ens han de permetre avançar cap a una administració més oberta, participativa i transparent, preparada per afrontar els reptes del segle XXI.</p>
<p>* Aquest article ha estat publicat originalment al blog de l'<a href="https://eapc.blog.gencat.cat/" target="_blank">Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya</a></p>How can open access work with promotion & tenure?tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-26:5385115:BlogPost:1505262016-10-26T12:00:00.000ZHeather Coateshttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/HeatherCoates
<p>Despite many changes in scholarly publishing and evidence for an open access citation advantage, many faculty are still worried about how their publication choices might affect their case for promotion and tenure. Over the past several years, we have identified a few strategies to alleviate those concerns and encourage faculty to include the full range of scholarly products they create along with more diverse metrics for impact. As we describe in a recent College and Research Libraries News…</p>
<p>Despite many changes in scholarly publishing and evidence for an open access citation advantage, many faculty are still worried about how their publication choices might affect their case for promotion and tenure. Over the past several years, we have identified a few strategies to alleviate those concerns and encourage faculty to include the full range of scholarly products they create along with more diverse metrics for impact. As we describe in a recent College and Research Libraries News <a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/7/322.full" target="_blank">column</a>, librarians at IUPUI have been working to align promotion and tenure (P&amp;T) values with open access (OA) for many years. We have found engaging faculty both as individual scholars and as partners in faculty governance to be very effective. Although engaging faculty at these levels requires a significant investment of time, it has built trust in the library and in librarians as the stewards of scholarship produced at IUPUI. We believe this approach is useful for other institutions. In this blog post, we will build on our CRLN column to further discuss how our workshops and involvement in faculty governance are changing policy and practice.<br/> </p>
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZJcQ2Dq4TpoD40AkTDZP1IdYeBal0sXQ45UnDOnmS61UvZU-dLXjxRWRXJAGzZTG8FYkW-arFBLBU7yIBwobujK/IUPUI_Ulib_LearningSpacesIII.jpg" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZJcQ2Dq4TpoD40AkTDZP1IdYeBal0sXQ45UnDOnmS61UvZU-dLXjxRWRXJAGzZTG8FYkW-arFBLBU7yIBwobujK/IUPUI_Ulib_LearningSpacesIII.jpg?width=200" width="200" class="align-right"/></a><em><span class="font-size-4">Engaging in faculty governance to change policy</span></em></p>
<p>In 2015, the IUPUI Office for Academic Affairs added a statement regarding the value of open access to the “<a href="http://academicaffairs.iupui.edu/media/404b2e14-a441-4791-bc7b-041cd82a9e17/HjBGUQ/AAContent/02-PromotionTenure/PromotionAndTenure/PTGuidelinesCLEAN.pdf" target="_blank">Chief Academic Officer’s Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Promotion and Tenure Dossiers 2016–2017</a>” (see Institutional Values, p. 34). These recent additions are one result of persistent effort toward building a favorable culture for OA. Working side by side with faculty in governance is a reminder that librarians are partners outside the classroom, as well as within and creates shared experiences that build trust and understanding. It is these strong relationships and the accumulated trust that allowed us to successfully advocate for OA policies in the context of other efforts. In addition to the P&amp;T guidelines, librarian participation in faculty governance committees has led to a “Harvard-style” OA policy, and inclusion of OA goals in the research and campus-level strategic plans.</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>Enabling changes in practice</em></span></p>
<p>Successfully implementing these policies relies on individual scholars to change their practice – in how they disseminate their work, in what products they choose to disseminate, and the evidence they use to support their case for promotion and tenure. IUPUI librarians have enabled practical, incremental change in the reporting of scholarship for P&amp;T by providing workshops and individual consultations. We support broader participation in OA by depositing publications, presentations, posters, conference proceedings, course syllabi, and more into the institutional repository, <a href="https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/" target="_blank">IUPUI ScholarWorks</a>. Doing so creates a more complete and accurate scholarly record, while enabling faculty to get credit for scholarship beyond journal articles and books.</p>
<p>In advising faculty and students on selection criteria for publication, we do not ask faculty to prioritize OA over all other considerations. Rather, we encourage them to identify the best venue for the audience they want to reach. If the best venue is a subscription-only journal, we support them in making available the pre-, post-print, or published version as allowed. Putting more products online with a permanent address and unique identifier (e.g., handle or DOI) makes it much easier to demonstrate how researchers, practitioners, and the public are interacting with those products. Faculty have a much richer body of evidence to support their case for promotion and tenure using webometrics and altmetrics as evidence of engagement with communities outside of academia, as well as preliminary indicators of reuse.</p>
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<p><em><span class="font-size-4">Walking the talk</span></em></p>
<p>We have also demonstrated the value of these practices by walking the talk -- modeling our own scholarly dissemination after these recommendations. For example, one of the authors, Heather Coates, recently submitted her dossier for promotion and tenure to Associate Librarian. Inspired by conversations with faculty and the passion of the <a href="http://www.opencon2016.org/" target="_blank">OpenCon community</a>, she wrote her dossier with the intention of making it open (<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3413698" target="_blank">Figshare</a>; <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1805/9827" target="_blank">IUPUI ScholarWorks</a>). Heather adapted a program evaluation approach to demonstrate the impact of her practice and scholarship. She chose open access venues to maximize readership and used webometrics and altmetrics to demonstrate engagement with relevant communities of practice.</p>
<p>All librarians can gain experience with research metrics data and tools to develop practical knowledge about their strengths and limitations. And all librarians can demonstrate the value of open access by modeling good practices. Such knowledge, combined with personal experience of reflecting on its meaning in your own work, is a powerful tool for engaging faculty and aligning support with their professional priorities and practices. We encourage librarians to ask faculty about their priorities and concerns. Listen and then help them strategically disseminate and track their scholarly products in ways that support openness and professional advancement.</p>
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<p><em>by Heather Coates &amp; Jere Odell, <a href="http://ulib.iupui.edu/" target="_blank">IUPUI University Library</a></em></p>
<p><em>Image is of <a href="http://www.rowlanddesign.com/expertise/higher-education/iupui-learning-spaces-iii/" target="_blank">Learning Spaces III</a></em></p>University of Westminster Press competitiontag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-26:5385115:BlogPost:1506742016-10-26T10:30:00.000ZAndrew Locketthttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/AndrewLockett
<p>The first book from Open Access Publisher <a href="http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/" target="_blank">University of Westminster Press</a>, <em><strong>CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet</strong></em> by Christian Fuchs is now out. The book may be downloaded for free <a href="http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>It is free digitally anyway but UWP is running a…</p>
<p>The first book from Open Access Publisher <a href="http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/" target="_blank">University of Westminster Press</a>, <em><strong>CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet</strong></em> by Christian Fuchs is now out. The book may be downloaded for free <a href="http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>It is free digitally anyway but UWP is running a competition for a <strong>free print copy</strong> of the book for two winners. To enter just email <strong>openaccess@westminster.ac.uk</strong> with the name of the <em>town or city where Karl Marx was born</em>. Winners will be chosen randomly from correct answers after the end of International Open Access week.</p>
<p>Competition closes midnight Western Standard Time on the 30th. <a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZI8WiLOcS3X*rXG1g6dndtMFm6vJTSpnRR31PLkolS0LKXFzg3YnXme0Hc7FqyzxGtvLOhSMcWuhmZBrhbJ7pgb/CSDMSFinalCover.jpg" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZI8WiLOcS3X*rXG1g6dndtMFm6vJTSpnRR31PLkolS0LKXFzg3YnXme0Hc7FqyzxGtvLOhSMcWuhmZBrhbJ7pgb/CSDMSFinalCover.jpg?width=750" width="750" class="align-full"/></a></p>Sabinet supports Open Access Week.tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-26:5385115:BlogPost:1509492016-10-26T07:24:22.000ZSabinet Onlinehttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/SabinetOnline
<p><b>CENTURION Pretoria, South Africa, 26 October 2016 -</b> It is widely agreed that the knowledge economy represents the future of economic growth for both developed and developing nations. This knowledge comprises intellectual capital, skills proficiency and the potential for innovation, driven firmly by information.</p>
<p>More specifically, growth is dependent on people’s access to, and ability to share and exchange, reliable information.</p>
<p>Passionate about shaping the future of…</p>
<p><b>CENTURION Pretoria, South Africa, 26 October 2016 -</b> It is widely agreed that the knowledge economy represents the future of economic growth for both developed and developing nations. This knowledge comprises intellectual capital, skills proficiency and the potential for innovation, driven firmly by information.</p>
<p>More specifically, growth is dependent on people’s access to, and ability to share and exchange, reliable information.</p>
<p>Passionate about shaping the future of research and facilitating the development of the knowledge economy, Sabinet is proud to celebrate Open Access week 2016: <i>to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research and turn breakthroughs into better lives. </i></p>
<p>Sabinet’s core focus, access to information, was further evidenced by their recent sponsorship of the ‘A-Rated Researchers’ Category at the National Research Foundation Awards. This category sees exceptional researchers recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their respective fields, for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs.</p>
<p>Additionally, Sabinet’s vast Open Access Journal Collection has been further enhanced by their new research platform, <a href="http://www.journals.co.za">www.journals.co.za</a>, offering Open Access content which covers various subject matters.</p>
<p>Providing researchers and academics with the most wide-ranging, searchable collection of full-text electronic African journals, the collections include:</p>
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<p>• Business and Finance</p>
<p>• Education</p>
<p>• Labour</p>
<p>• Law</p>
<p>• Medicine and Health</p>
<p>• Religion</p>
<p>• Science, Technology and Agriculture</p>
<p>• Social Sciences and Humanities</p>
<p>• African Journal Archive</p>
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<p>Furthermore, the platform boasts extensive new features that improve research efficacy; from an easy to use drop down menu, to streamlined search options and well-structured web pages.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://www.journals.co.za/content/collection/open-access">http://www.journals.co.za/content/collection/open-access</a> for free, immediate, online access to Sabinet’s Open Access content.</p>
<p><b>About Sabinet</b></p>
<p>With a sound performance history of over 30 years, Sabinet has firmly established itself as a leader in facilitating access to a wide spectrum of high-quality and credible information sources. Over the course of the last three decades, Sabinet has built a strong local and international reputation for providing Africa's information to the world and the world's information to Africa.</p>
<p>Sabinet's mission to support libraries' technical processes, promote resource sharing and enable access to information sources is underpinned by its commitment, partnerships, understanding and support.</p>
<p>Sabinet's roots are in library support services, where it is recognised for providing central platforms for collaboration and resource sharing among libraries.</p>
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<p>For more information contact:</p>
<p>Jeanine Liebenberg</p>
<p>Communications Officer</p>
<p><a href="mailto:jeanine@sabinet.co.za">jeanine@sabinet.co.za</a></p>From Lemons to Lemonade -- The Evolution of Open Access Publishingtag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1505382016-10-25T21:49:12.000ZPeaches Udomahttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/PeachesUdoma529
<p><font face="Cambria" size="3">When it comes to the production and publication of scientific study, we know two things to be true—there can be no substitute for properly researched, peer-reviewed, and ethically adherent papers; and Open Access is here to stay. There are many in the debate over the present state and future playing field of scientific journal publishing that would tell you that these two truths are mutually exclusive. After thirty plus years in scientific research, education,…</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria" size="3">When it comes to the production and publication of scientific study, we know two things to be true—there can be no substitute for properly researched, peer-reviewed, and ethically adherent papers; and Open Access is here to stay. There are many in the debate over the present state and future playing field of scientific journal publishing that would tell you that these two truths are mutually exclusive. After thirty plus years in scientific research, education, and consulting, we can tell you with utter assurance that they are not.</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria" size="3">In the past few years, we’ve heard the Open Access movement referred to as the “wild west,” and as a “den of predators,” among other colorful epithets. At times, and in certain quarters, these are inarguably earned descriptors. The necessary unlocking of scientific reach and research has opened the floodgates for hucksters and conmen in both academic publishing and conferences from around the world. But the push for greater transparency and access to research has also opened the avenues of learning for countless scientists who had been disenfranchised and discarded based solely on their economic standing or country of practice. Now, and moving forward, anyone who has that brilliant idea might also have the opportunity to lend his or her voice to our mutual quest for knowledge.</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria" size="3">So, what’s next? We’ve already seen the inevitable and necessary beginning of the crackdown on unethical practice in our field. This can and should continue as we mutually reach for a universal set of standards that begins to hold Open Access publishers to the same rigorous ethical codes as traditional publishers. We see the purpose of labeling certain journals and publishers as predatory, but see also that there are many journals and publishers that are learning and evolving as they grow. Some would strive for ethical practice if they could be shown the way, and the greater scientific community must be willing to give them a chance -- if they're openly committed to operating ethically -- to earn their place among the hosts of respectable standards in research.</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria" size="3">We believe that the “wild west” must be tamed, but that the vital resources that have been uncovered in that exploration can and will bring far more good than harm to our mutual endeavors. Out of yesterday’s manure grows today’s flowers…</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria" size="3">The siloes of labs, universities, countries, and disciplines have begun to fall away as collaboration in study increasingly transcends the boundaries that historically stand between us.</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria"><font size="3">After thirty years of our own research, teaching, and best practices consulting, and with the next thirty years in mind, we at Pro-Cure Health Design are excited and ready to do our part to help usher in the new era of scientific publication and partnership. </font></font></p>
<p></p>Call to Open Accesstag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1505842016-10-25T19:59:57.000ZNils E. R. Zimmermannhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/NilsERZimmermann
<p><span class="il"><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIgabC2eSzQRHsL8ns*N7AQrxA*UgOgPFs64tBLptSX-OxHCtoUb4RHkxHGSU9tGatD0dUakyhFC8veAGexGK28/Open_Access_Flag_BW_cropped.png" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIgabC2eSzQRHsL8ns*N7AQrxA*UgOgPFs64tBLptSX-OxHCtoUb4RHkxHGSU9tGatD0dUakyhFC8veAGexGK28/Open_Access_Flag_BW_cropped.png?width=166" width="166"></img></a></span> <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access" target="_blank">Open Access</a></span> (OA) publishing is, from my point of view, a logical consequence of the ideals of science because it enables a true…</p>
<p><span class="il"><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIgabC2eSzQRHsL8ns*N7AQrxA*UgOgPFs64tBLptSX-OxHCtoUb4RHkxHGSU9tGatD0dUakyhFC8veAGexGK28/Open_Access_Flag_BW_cropped.png" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIgabC2eSzQRHsL8ns*N7AQrxA*UgOgPFs64tBLptSX-OxHCtoUb4RHkxHGSU9tGatD0dUakyhFC8veAGexGK28/Open_Access_Flag_BW_cropped.png?width=166" class="align-left" width="166"/></a></span><span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access" target="_blank">Open Access</a></span> (OA) publishing is, from my point of view, a logical consequence of the ideals of science because it enables a true <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">open</span> discussion about a certain research matter in the first place. This aspect has however worn out over the past few decades. Scientific research has become more and more an entrepreneurial endeavor rather than a collective effort for which an <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">open</span> discussion—including unexpected results—is instrumental. Quick success stories have become more important than systematically designed, thoroughly conducted studies that may not yield desirable results. It's sad, but true.<br/> <br/> Beyond the purely ideological reason, that is, beyond bringing scientific research on the scientifically most ideal or consistent track from a publishing perspective, I feel that there is a strong societal component to OA publishing. Researchers whose funding situation allows it should do their very best to make their insights available to people with little or, effectively, zero <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">access</span> and opportunities. I'm thinking here about people from poor and developing regions of the world. But equally about people from low-income communities in the researcher's country of residence where there are often numerous colleges that cannot pay the tremendous publisher-<span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">access</span> fees. Given that the Internet reaches so many people worldwide these days, the technological solution is in place—since a long time. So, the true bottlenecks for meeting this societal responsibility on a broad scope is, in my experience, the will of principle investigators (PIs), the support of funding agencies to tackle the associated costs, and the cooperation of publishers to develop sensible and affordable OA options. Below, I will share my (still limited) experience with <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">OA</span> publishing to increase awareness and hopefully bump up the number of openly accessible research results.<br/> <br/> Last year, I published a paper on sodium chloride nucleation in the <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jacsat" target="_blank">Journal of the American Chemical Society</a> (JACS), the <a href="https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en.html" target="_blank">ACS</a>'s flagship journal. At the end of the peer-review process, I urged my co-authors to go for an OA option. I even suggested that I'd pay a large chunk of the costs by myself. Fortunately, we had a person from the UK on board who had published OA with ACS in 2014 and, through this, held ACS publishing rewards which reduced our costs basically to zero. My co-author told me that he got those rewards because his funding agency, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), demands OA publishing since April 1, 2013. And, EPSRC <a href="https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/access/roaccess/" target="_blank">strongly encourages researchers to go for the gold route</a> (immediate <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">access</span> and maximum reuse opportunity).<br/> <br/> The positive experience with the OA JACS paper made me push hard to get my next article, a data-science perspective on zeolite discoveries in <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/journal/cgdefu" target="_blank">Crystal Growth &amp; Design</a> (May, 2016), be also <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">open</span> <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">access</span>—in the most convenient way for any reader. At that time, I had already switched institutions and mentors so that I found myself at <a href="http://www.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">Berkeley Lab</a>. The Lab retains the right to provide the public with <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">open</span> <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">access</span> to articles written and published by Lab affiliates (at least the pre-proofs version) via its <a href="https://publications.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">Publications System (basically a document server)</a>. Thus, I already had an easy way to make the paper OA. But I thought it would be more helpful for people interested in the work to have the paper be openly accessible on the publisher's website. My current mentor agreed to the argument and retrieved the needed funds to pay for the OA option.</p>
<p>Another recent experience of mine with Open Access—a rather passive experience however—was that I read about the <a href="http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/08/ACS-launches-chemistry-preprint-server.html" target="_blank">ACS launching a chemistry preprint server</a>, which is a positive development in my view. Since decades, the Physical Science community has its <a href="https://arxiv.org/" target="_blank">arXiv server</a>. And, I have—honestly writing not without envy—seen many physicist colleagues putting their articles on arXiv while experiencing no restrictions whatsoever from the publishers to submit the papers to top-level physics journals. In chemistry, the situation is different. The two probably best-known heavyweight journals, JACS and <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291521-3773" target="_blank">Angewandte Chemie</a>, have for decades successfully pushed back on such an effort in the field of chemistry. Now that the ACS has fundamentally changed its view on OA and acts accordingly, criticism comes immediately from Angewandte's editor Peter Gölitz, complaining that the chemical preprint server move "<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201609304/full" target="_blank">has apparently not been coordinated with other chemical societies [...]</a>." The criticism is understandable. What would serve the Chemical Sciences community most is when the publishers, ACS and <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/" target="_blank">Wiley</a>, team up. But not for a self-serving purpose to promote their journals in a bipartisan way. Rather, they should get other chemical societies, small and large, on board to fulfill their leadership role in a decent and most constructive way!</p>
<p>The most valuable, because most coherent, OA moves in the past few years have been the efforts by <a href="http://home.frontiersin.org/" target="_blank">Frontiers</a>, in my view. Frontiers is a new publishing platform that is community-rooted and community-grown. They promote constructive new review tools (e.g., <a href="http://home.frontiersin.org/about/review-system" target="_blank">real-time interactive review phase</a>). And, they strive for most democratic and representative evaluations of articles by <a href="http://home.frontiersin.org/about/impact-and-tiering" target="_blank">providing a large array of impact metrics</a>. A good indicator of Frontiers's potential to take a leading role in the OA scientific publishing movement on the long run is that the <a href="http://www.nature.com/press_releases/npgfrontiers.html" target="_blank">Nature Publishing Group formed an alliance with them</a> in 2013. On the flip side, there were recent <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/backlash-after-frontiers-journals-added-to-list-of-questionable-publishers-1.18639" target="_blank">controversies about the integrity of Frontiers</a> as an OA publisher. If anything, these incidents show how volatile the entire movement still is—unfortunately.</p>
<p>Despite all these largely positive experiences and developments, I still find one aspect about OA particularly worrisome. I see predominantly postdocs and PhD students push for OA papers and promote sensible OA mechanisms. Thus, young researchers are the true driving force behind this effort. Consequently, I use this post to issue a <strong>Call to <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">Open</span> <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">Access</span></strong> that should, in particular, reach PIs, funding agencies, and publishers. We are living in the 21st century in which public <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">access</span> to information and information-producing resources (e.g., software code) represent, at the same time, central challenges and super-strong sources of empowerment for people. Do not shy away from your responsibility. Endorse and actively pursue <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">Open</span> <span class="m_-5015893122206300595gmail-il">Access</span> publishing to better support your local and our global community!</p>Open Access Week Perú 2016 - Streamingtag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1505962016-10-25T17:04:28.000ZSaid Castrohttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/SaidCastro
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<p></p>To promote Open Access Week 2016, from October 24 through October 30, ECS is taking down the paywall to the ECS Digital Library (http://ecsdl.org).
Over 132,000 articles will be freely available to a…tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1506752016-10-25T15:51:20.000ZMary Yesshttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/MaryYess
<p>To promote Open Access Week 2016, from October 24 through October 30, ECS is taking down the paywall to the ECS Digital Library (<a href="http://ecsdl.org">http://ecsdl.org</a>).</p>
<p>Over 132,000 articles will be freely available to anyone who wants to read them. ECS is giving the world a preview of what complete open access will look like when we have completed our Free the Science (<a href="http://www.electrochem.org/free-the-science">http://www.electrochem.org/free-the-science</a>)…</p>
<p>To promote Open Access Week 2016, from October 24 through October 30, ECS is taking down the paywall to the ECS Digital Library (<a href="http://ecsdl.org">http://ecsdl.org</a>).</p>
<p>Over 132,000 articles will be freely available to anyone who wants to read them. ECS is giving the world a preview of what complete open access will look like when we have completed our Free the Science (<a href="http://www.electrochem.org/free-the-science">http://www.electrochem.org/free-the-science</a>) campaign.</p>
<p>ECS believes that open access—especially in electrochemistry and solid state sciences—is an important goal for scientific and technological development and, quite simply, creating a better world. Ensuring that everyone working on these issues—wherever they are in the world, and for whomever they work—has access to the latest research is in our best interests as a nonprofit professional society supporting researchers everywhere, and in the best interests of all the sciences.</p>
<p>Just some of the subjects covered by our journals include:</p>
<p>* energy storage and conversion, from small scale to large scale: batteries, fuel cells, biofuels, supercapacitors, grid-scaling;</p>
<p>* environmental remediation of materials used in research;</p>
<p>* corrosion of infrastructures;</p>
<p>* clean water and sanitation;</p>
<p>* the growth of nanotechnology;</p>
<p>* processes to develop safer and more effective drugs;</p>
<p>* improving and developing new medical devices; and\</p>
<p>* sensors for environmental cleanup, emissions monitoring, detection of illegal and dangerous materials, home and workplace safety, and medical diagnosis and care.</p>
<p>Free the Science is a business-model changing initiative that will make our research freely available to all readers, while remaining free for authors to publish. It is a new publishing standard for ECS, one of the last independent scientific society publishers. We already give authors the choice to publish their work as Open Access and we plan to open access to the entire ECS Digital Library by 2024.</p>
<p>ECS believes that by opening, and democratizing research, we can more rapidly advance our important sciences and society at large, while directly fulfilling our mission. The key to scientific advancement has always been the open exchange of information. Yet even in today’s digital environment, many scientists around the world struggle to access quality, reliable research. The bottom line is discoveries need discoverability and that is only guaranteed through full Open Access.</p>
<p>The ECS Digital Library is home to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, the flagship journal of ECS, published continuously since 1902, and to the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, ECS Electrochemistry Letters, ECS Solid State Letters, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, ECS Transactions, ECS Meeting Abstracts, and Interface.</p>
<p>ECS has not yet reached a place where it can sustainably make all of our publications open access, but it is our goal and we want to celebrate our vision of the future during Open Access Week. So, please spread the word. From October 24 through October 30, anyone will be able to read any of the content in our Digital Library for free.</p>
<p>Through our Free the Science initiative, we hope to make this the “norm” in the future.</p>NEW DSpace 6.0 Now Available: Enabling Open Access to Global Scholarshiptag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1507422016-10-25T15:44:43.000ZCarol Minton Morrishttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/CarolMintonMorris
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIJn7pF5e4KlEdf9hvzYQeHxXpeZnT4WvCjbti1hBprq0wlBIFYBpOeAwTZd59xQnBAEoNb-oZueu5rWuhqg4XO/digital_scholarship.jpg" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIJn7pF5e4KlEdf9hvzYQeHxXpeZnT4WvCjbti1hBprq0wlBIFYBpOeAwTZd59xQnBAEoNb-oZueu5rWuhqg4XO/digital_scholarship.jpg" width="504"></img></a> <em>Austin, TX </em>2,207 users from around the world have implemented repositories with the popular DSpace, out-of-the box, open source, repository software in order to openly share and preserve digital scholarly information from more than 122 countries.</p>
<p>To take a look at the wide range of…</p>
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIJn7pF5e4KlEdf9hvzYQeHxXpeZnT4WvCjbti1hBprq0wlBIFYBpOeAwTZd59xQnBAEoNb-oZueu5rWuhqg4XO/digital_scholarship.jpg" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIJn7pF5e4KlEdf9hvzYQeHxXpeZnT4WvCjbti1hBprq0wlBIFYBpOeAwTZd59xQnBAEoNb-oZueu5rWuhqg4XO/digital_scholarship.jpg" width="504" class="align-full"/></a><em>Austin, TX </em>2,207 users from around the world have implemented repositories with the popular DSpace, out-of-the box, open source, repository software in order to openly share and preserve digital scholarly information from more than 122 countries.</p>
<p>To take a look at the wide range of institutions and organizations that are using DSpace to make their scholarly resources discoverable and accessible visit the DSpace Registry: <a href="http://registry.duraspace.org/registry/dspace" target="_blank">http://registry.duraspace.org/registry/dspace</a></p>
<p>This week the DSpace community has proudly released DSpace 6.0, with a big thank you for contributed code, bug reports, and bug fixes from <span>73 individuals. Together with DuraSpace these are the people who have helped make<span> significant DSpace API enhancements and new features freely available to all.</span></span></p>
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<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">DSpace 6.0 can be downloaded immediately from: <a href="https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.0" target="_blank">https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.0</a></font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">6.0 Release notes are available at: <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Release+Notes" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Release+Notes</a></font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 6 on <a href="http://demo.dspace.org/" target="_blank">http://demo.dspace.org/</a> and continue to provide feedback on this major release.</font></li>
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<p>This release features an enhanced configuration system, enhanced file storage plugins, and new quality control/healthcheck reporting features (via REST API and via email). In addition, DSpace 6 has an eye on the future, with a major Java API refactor that adds support for both UUIDs and Hibernate in our database layer. Like its predecessor, DSpace 6 continues to strive to simplify your upgrade process by automatically updating your database to 6.x compatibility (from any prior DSpace version).</p>
<p>Read more here: <a href="http://bit.ly/2eN5YQt" target="_blank">bit.ly/2eN5YQt</a></p>
<p></p>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) influencing the direction of open science in SAtag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1504952016-10-25T13:30:00.000ZIna Smithhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/InaSmith784
<p>The <a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/">Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)</a> represents South Africa in the international community of science academies, and part of its <a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/about-assaf/mission">mission</a> is to proactively and reactively embark on a programme of systematic studies of evidence-based issues of national importance. As a signatory to the <a href="https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration">Berlin Declaration on Open Access to…</a></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/">Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)</a> represents South Africa in the international community of science academies, and part of its <a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/about-assaf/mission">mission</a> is to proactively and reactively embark on a programme of systematic studies of evidence-based issues of national importance. As a signatory to the <a href="https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration">Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities</a>, together with other organisations worldwide, it aims to – among others - find ways and solutions to further support the development of policy frameworks in order to facilitate optimal use and access to publicly funded research, of interest to the SA community in general. ASSAf will further be partnering with the SA Dept. of Science and Technology in starting the dialogue on an Open Science Policy Framework, with the first of a series of workshops diarised for 12 and 13 December 2016. </p>
<p>The Scholarly Publishing Unit (SPU) within ASSAf plays a leading role in actively promoting access to publicly funded research. Some of its initiatives include: </p>
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<li>Open access to high quality SA scholarly journals through <a href="http://www.scielo.org.za/">SciELO SA</a></li>
<li>Open Access journal publishing using <a href="http://journals.assaf.org.za/">Open Journal Systems</a></li>
<li>Publishing <a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/programmes/scholarly-publishing-programme/peer-review-panels">peer review reports</a> on journal and book evaluations</li>
<li><span>Publishing the <a href="http://sajs.co.za/" target="_blank">South African Journal of Science</a>, the flagship scholarly journal of the country</span></li>
<li>Publishing <a href="http://research.assaf.org.za/handle/20.500.11911/8" target="_blank">Quest: Science for South Africa Magazine</a>, aimed at young scientists</li>
<li>Promote transparency and openness through the National Scholarly Editors Forum and the National Scholarly Publishers Book Forum</li>
<li>Sharing knowledge on scholarly publishing via the ASSAf Scholarly Publishing <a href="http://academyofsciencesa.wikispaces.com/">Wiki</a> and <a href="http://journals.assaf.org.za/blog/">Blog</a></li>
<li>Managing the African Open Science Platform project</li>
<li>Managing DATAD (Directory of African Theses &amp; Dissertations, in collaboration with the Association of African Universities)</li>
<li>Participating in Open Science initiatives, policy formulation</li>
<li>Ina Smith representing southern Africa as an ambassador for the <a href="https://doaj.org/">Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)</a></li>
<li>Conducting training on Open Access best practice and software available</li>
<li>And many more </li>
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<p>The <a href="http://research.assaf.org.za/">ASSAf Research Repository</a> was launched recently in support of international Open Access Week, celebrated from 24-30 October 2016. This repository will in future be used to disseminate the results from publicly funded research conducted as widely possible. The dissemination of data sets supporting the research output will also be explored, as well as making the data available in an open format for reuse. A highlight this past couple of weeks was making the <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11911/14">South Africa’s technical readiness to support the shale gas industry</a> report available via the ASSAf Research Repository, which immediately attracted quite a bit of attention from the media and business sectors. This report – of huge importance for environmentalists and business entrepreneurs alike, influencing trends and national policy - concluded that much needs to be done to put in place a clear legislative environment and a rigorous regulatory and monitoring structure which will ensure that operators, in using their exploration and production licenses, apply best-practice technologies that are fully compliant with the rules and regulations governing the industry. This an excellent example of how research should be openly accessible for the public to be informed about decision making on national level, about issues related to their daily life and activities.</p>
<p><a href="http://research.assaf.org.za/handle/20.500.11911/14" target="_blank"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKaliouJ2vhI6qp213PryYEQkkiF4QtTW4rzsSk3YRp1phtXAE0rnoPk8d9HvG*y2l6oYUyTt-YWgBsziySE5w7/banner.png?width=750" width="750" class="align-center"/></a></p>How open access content helps fuel growth in Indian-language Wikipediastag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1503202016-10-25T11:30:00.000ZSubhashish Panigrahihttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/psubhashish
<div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKYPpkpQv0UD6PLzOaz3gLx0aD5R7PAYYr80zj4W8o2R6C1dfiUMwizPSpZLqUZAfAe7oZx7cOv00GtzOi8*qUp/Open_Access_Week_stencil_and_card_made_from_stencil.jpg" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKYPpkpQv0UD6PLzOaz3gLx0aD5R7PAYYr80zj4W8o2R6C1dfiUMwizPSpZLqUZAfAe7oZx7cOv00GtzOi8*qUp/Open_Access_Week_stencil_and_card_made_from_stencil.jpg?width=450" width="450"></img></a> Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in…</p>
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<div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKYPpkpQv0UD6PLzOaz3gLx0aD5R7PAYYr80zj4W8o2R6C1dfiUMwizPSpZLqUZAfAe7oZx7cOv00GtzOi8*qUp/Open_Access_Week_stencil_and_card_made_from_stencil.jpg" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKYPpkpQv0UD6PLzOaz3gLx0aD5R7PAYYr80zj4W8o2R6C1dfiUMwizPSpZLqUZAfAe7oZx7cOv00GtzOi8*qUp/Open_Access_Week_stencil_and_card_made_from_stencil.jpg?width=450" class="align-center" width="450"/></a>Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in <a href="http://qz.com/56259/language-is-the-key-to-winning-indias-mobile-market/" target="_blank">rural India</a>, and because most <a href="https://yourstory.com/2015/11/news-aggregators-vernacular/" target="_blank">Internet users</a> are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.</p>
<h2>Indian-language Wikipedias and open access</h2>
<p>Most commonly spoken Indian languages have had Wikipedia projects for almost a decade. Languages like <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/15/konkani-wikipedia-goes-live/" target="_blank">Konkani</a> and <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/" target="_blank">Tulu</a> are new entrants in the Wikipedia family, and currently there are <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Indian_language_wiki_projects" target="_blank">23 Indian language Wikipedias</a>. One example of high-quality open access content is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Open_Textbook_of_Medicine" target="_blank">Open Textbook of Medicine</a>, an offline encyclopedia consisting of Wikipedia articles related to medicine, which was created by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Members" target="_blank">group of dedicated volunteer</a> medical professionals that happen to be Wikipedia editors. There is enormous potential to grow Wikipedia in multiple languages with high-quality, open content like this.</p>
<p>To help fuel the growth of Wikipedia and its various projects, such as the Indian-language Wikipedias, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community" target="_blank">Wikipedia community</a> has created an ecosystem with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedia_chapters" target="_blank">Wikimedia chapters</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates" target="_blank">other affiliates</a>, which are run by both volunteers and paid staff from the <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" target="_blank">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, an organization responsible for fundraising, technical, and community support. In India, <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/" target="_blank">Wikimedia India</a>, the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge program</a> (CIS-A2K), and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians" target="_blank">Punjabi Wikimedians</a> are three such official affiliates working on catalyzing the growth of the content and the communities.</p>
<p>Whereas Wikimedia India focuses on expanding all the Indian-languages content, Punjabi Wikimedians focus on Punjabi language content (in both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts), and CIS-A2K focuses on five languages: Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu.</p>
<p>Indian-language Wikipedia projects can only grow with the help of volunteers editing their own language Wikipedias and adding missing information from a reliable sources, which is where open access content can help.</p>
<h2>Open in action</h2>
<p>The 2016 International Open Access Week will be held October 24-30, 2016. The theme this year is <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action" target="_blank">Open in Action</a>. The announcement explains, "International Open Access Week has always been about action, and this year's theme encourages all stakeholders to take concrete steps to make their own work more openly available and encourage others to do the same. From posting preprints in a repository to supporting colleagues in making their work more accessible, this year’s Open Access Week will focus on moving from discussion to action in opening up our system for communicating research."</p>
<p>Indian contributors show the spirit of Open in Action as they help add content to the various Indian-languages Wikipedias. They depend on open access to research and other publications to help millions of people, including those living in rural areas, who are joining us online.<br/> <br/> <em>Cross-posted by author from <a href="https://opensource.com/life/16/10/open-access-growth-indian-language-wikipedias" target="_blank">Opensource.com</a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div>Open Acces/Open Science in Actiontag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-24:5385115:BlogPost:1503352016-10-24T23:26:53.000ZEva Méndezhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/EvaMendez
<p>I think this week is the perfect moment to remind the video presenting the Open Science Conference under the NL presidence in April 2016, so everybody can ask him/herself: <span style="color: #888888;">And you, what are you going to do</span>?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9a3Ap3yyak&amp;feature=youtu.be%C2%A0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9a3Ap3yyak&amp;feature=youtu.be </a>;</p>
<p>Open Science/Access in Action!!</p>
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<p>I think this week is the perfect moment to remind the video presenting the Open Science Conference under the NL presidence in April 2016, so everybody can ask him/herself: <span style="color: #888888;">And you, what are you going to do</span>?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9a3Ap3yyak&amp;feature=youtu.be%C2%A0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9a3Ap3yyak&amp;feature=youtu.be </a>;</p>
<p>Open Science/Access in Action!!</p>
<p></p>Launching the RI at UFSCar - Braziltag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-24:5385115:BlogPost:1470152016-10-24T23:00:00.000ZChloe Furnivalhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/ChloeFurnival202
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<p>To coincide with the International Open Access Week 2016, the <a href="http://www2.ufscar.br/home/index.php" target="_blank">Universidade Federal de São Carlos</a>, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, will be launching its <a href="https://repositorio.ufscar.br/" target="_blank">open access institutional repository</a> at 10am on the 25th of October. We especially chose this date so that we can really be a part of this wonderfully motivating week for worldwide open…</p>
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<p>To coincide with the International Open Access Week 2016, the <a href="http://www2.ufscar.br/home/index.php" target="_blank">Universidade Federal de São Carlos</a>, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, will be launching its <a href="https://repositorio.ufscar.br/" target="_blank">open access institutional repository</a> at 10am on the 25th of October. We especially chose this date so that we can really be a part of this wonderfully motivating week for worldwide open access! </p>
<p>Best wishe! / Abraços!</p>
<p></p>Library Technology Launchpad Post on Open Access Week 2016tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-24:5385115:BlogPost:1503812016-10-24T17:50:13.000ZJames Dayhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/JamesDay
<p>I posted a short article on my <strong>Library Technology Launchpad</strong> website with some ways to participate in <span style="color: #ff6600;">Open Access Week 2016</span>.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://libtechlaunchpad.com/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016" target="_blank">http://libtechlaunchpad.com/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016</a>.</p>
<p>Follow Library Technology Launchpad on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LTLaunchpad" target="_blank">@LTLaunchpad</a>.</p>
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<p>I posted a short article on my <strong>Library Technology Launchpad</strong> website with some ways to participate in <span style="color: #ff6600;">Open Access Week 2016</span>.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://libtechlaunchpad.com/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016" target="_blank">http://libtechlaunchpad.com/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016</a>.</p>
<p>Follow Library Technology Launchpad on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LTLaunchpad" target="_blank">@LTLaunchpad</a>.</p>
<p></p>Open Access Week 2016: A Drumbeat for ‘Open In Action’tag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-24:5385115:BlogPost:1502222016-10-24T17:50:00.000ZTimothy Vollmerhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/TimothyVollmer970
<p><span><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIExTFktzABxuFmACdW6ja*EcSl6d93EUmVi6OL6*sb*Fgh9p1cgsahmWfpIVPguUgoESzqzvBowctAvcx95U7a/cc_OA_logo.png" target="_self"><img class="align-right" height="208" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIExTFktzABxuFmACdW6ja*EcSl6d93EUmVi6OL6*sb*Fgh9p1cgsahmWfpIVPguUgoESzqzvBowctAvcx95U7a/cc_OA_logo.png?width=750" width="131"></img></a></span> Today kicks off <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">Open Access Week 2016</a>. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. Its goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes…</p>
<p><span><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIExTFktzABxuFmACdW6ja*EcSl6d93EUmVi6OL6*sb*Fgh9p1cgsahmWfpIVPguUgoESzqzvBowctAvcx95U7a/cc_OA_logo.png" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZIExTFktzABxuFmACdW6ja*EcSl6d93EUmVi6OL6*sb*Fgh9p1cgsahmWfpIVPguUgoESzqzvBowctAvcx95U7a/cc_OA_logo.png?width=750" width="131" class="align-right" height="208"/></a></span>Today kicks off <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">Open Access Week 2016</a>. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. Its goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues. This year’s theme is <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action"><i>open in action</i></a>.</p>
<p><span>For nearly 15 years, Creative Commons licenses and legal tools have been used to share scholarly articles and data on more open terms than the standard “all rights reserved” copyright. In addition to the legal machinery that helps communicate the rights to use and reuse open access research, the movement around Creative Commons and open access has spread through academia, libraries, science, education, and public policy.</span></p>
<p><span>What’s been going on in Open Access over the last year? Here’s a just a brief sampling:</span></p>
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<li><span>CC’s Ryan Merkley thinks </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/">it’s ludicrous that the public gets such poor access</a><span> to the fruits of its massive taxpayer investments in publicly funded research. Articles in </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/apr/18/why-academic-journals-expensive">The Guardian</a><span>, </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/04/29/the-future-of-open-access-why-has-academia-not-embraced-the-internet-revolution/#3e7a4bb71bbf">Forbes</a><span>,</span><a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/06/what-is-open-access-free-sharing-of-all-human-knowledge/">ArsTechnica</a><span>, and </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-of-the-tax-dollar-double-dip-1459379449">The Wall Street Journal</a><span> wondered the same. And Robert Darnton </span><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/new-hillary-library/">calls on the new Librarian of Congress</a><span> to champion open access to publicly-funded research in the U.S.</span></li>
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<li><span>Vice President Biden launched the </span><a href="https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative">National Cancer Moonshot Initiative</a><span>, which seeks to make ten years’ worth of progress on cancer research in half that time. As part of that initiative, CC continues to call for </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/05/keep-pressure-cancer-moonshot/">immediate open access to all publicly-funded cancer research and data</a><span>. Specifically, we offered </span><a href="https://medium.com/cancer-moonshot/four-things-we-can-do-now-to-unlock-the-cure-for-cancer-9c6759ce5b44#.xproxx7qp">four things we can do now to unlock the cure for cancer</a><span>.</span></li>
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<li><span>The United Nations </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/06/united-nations-report-calls-open-access-research-improve-global-health/">urged governments, universities, and funders to prioritize open access to research</a><span> as a means to improve global health.</span></li>
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<li><span>The European Union continues to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/05/03/europe-moving-right-direction-support-open-science/">push ahead</a><span> in support of open science, and the Commission wants scientific data to be </span><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1408_en.htm">‘open by default’</a><span> as a requirement for future research grants.</span></li>
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<li><span>The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/18/reclaim-invention-benefit-everyone/"><i>Reclaim Invention</i></a><span> project to push for reforms in university technology transfer practices. CC is supporting the project as natural complement to related open access and open education initiatives in higher education.</span></li>
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<li><span>OASPA showed </span><a href="http://oaspa.org/oaspa-members-ccby-growth-2015-data/">increasing growth</a><span> of fully open access journals, and </span><a href="http://oaspa.org/best-practices-licensing-attribution-need-to-know/">released</a><span> an informative guide on best practices in licensing and attribution.</span></li>
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<li><span>More research was published that showed that publishing under open access can </span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16800">help researchers succeed</a><span> by increasing citations and media attention, inviting potential collaborators, and opening the door to future job and funding opportunities.</span></li>
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<p><span>Be sure to check out </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">openaccessweek.org</a><span> for more information on this week’s campaign, and </span><a href="http://www.action.openaccessweek.org/">make a commitment</a><span> to put ‘open in action’.</span></p>
<p><span>Follow along with the Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/">blog</a><span>, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">Twitter</a><span>, and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/">Facebook</a><span> this week, and be sure to tag and share your posts with the #OAweek hashtag. We’ll be supporting Open Access Week with posts, interviews, and other activities.</span></p>
<p><span>Here we go!</span></p>[Free eBook] Scholastica & Authorea announce OA + Preprints: Journals and scholars take actiontag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-24:5385115:BlogPost:1502102016-10-24T16:39:01.000ZDanielle Padulahttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/DaniellePadula
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">In honor of Open Access Week 2016,<a href="https://scholasticahq.com/" target="_blank">Scholastica</a> and <a href="https://www.authorea.com/" target="_blank">Authorea</a> announce a new free-to-download eBook: …</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">In honor of Open Access Week 2016,<a href="https://scholasticahq.com/" target="_blank">Scholastica</a> and <a href="https://www.authorea.com/" target="_blank">Authorea</a> announce a new free-to-download eBook: <em><strong><a href="http://resources.scholasticahq.com/open-access-publishing-preprints/" target="_blank">Open Access + Preprints: Journals and scholars take action</a></strong></em>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">In recent years preprint servers, or online databases of manuscripts posted by scholars prior to formal publication, have been growing in popularity resulting in preprints for nearly all disciplines. <strong><a href="http://resources.scholasticahq.com/open-access-publishing-preprints/" target="_blank">This eBook</a></strong> overviews how preprint servers are both reshaping the research experience and contributing to new journal publishing models.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;">We explore:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">New ways researchers are collaborating and publishing research via preprints</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">Steps journals can take to help researchers use preprints for Green OA archiving </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">Questions surrounding the use of preprints</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">Journals using preprint publishing models to make research free to read and free to publish</span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4">The eBook is full of insights to help you navigate the evolving role of preprints in the scholarly communication landscape. We hope you find it useful and invite you to share it! </span></p>A New Open Access Book: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Futuretag:www.openaccessweek.org,2016-10-24:5385115:BlogPost:1501052016-10-24T13:00:00.000ZWilliam Caraherhttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/WilliamCaraher
<p>The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is very pleased to announce the open-access, peer-reviewed publication of <a href="https://thedigitalpress.org/mobilizing-the-past-for-a-digital-future/">Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts, <em>Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology</em>. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.…</a></p>
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<p>The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is very pleased to announce the open-access, peer-reviewed publication of <a href="https://thedigitalpress.org/mobilizing-the-past-for-a-digital-future/">Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts, <em>Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology</em>. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKjrhkFQbEZRTKUHoC1RSQ4L2MjMspxzVaBLfuv9vKCzTMCMSIE5pbzwIMxKDfOrEcPoBwryq70j5xgSq*SvzP-/MtPbannercolor.jpg" target="_self"><img src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/7j71GRa9aZKjrhkFQbEZRTKUHoC1RSQ4L2MjMspxzVaBLfuv9vKCzTMCMSIE5pbzwIMxKDfOrEcPoBwryq70j5xgSq*SvzP-/MtPbannercolor.jpg?width=750" width="609" class="align-center" height="152"/></a></p>
<p>It's an exciting way for our little press to celebrate Open Access Week!</p>
<p>The book can be downloaded for free from <a href="https://thedigitalpress.org/mobilizing-the-past-for-a-digital-future/">The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota’s website</a> or from <a href="http://dc.uwm.edu/arthist_mobilizingthepast/">Digital Commons at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee</a>.</p>
<p>Here's a brief summary of the over 550 pages of open access, digital archaeology goodness!</p>
<p>The study of the ancient world requires the most modern tools. In the 21st century, archaeology is no longer the domain of picks, pith helmets, and sharpened trowels, but a high tech enterprise. Archaeologists now take high-powered laptop computers, tablets, drones, and sophisticated software and workflows in the field with them. In Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, Erin Walcek Averett (Creighton University), Jody Michael Gordon (Wentworth Institute of Technology), and Derek B. Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) brings together 17 papers authored by the most creative thinkers on technology and archaeological field practice. Introduced by a sweeping survey of the intellectual and practical issues surrounding digital practices in archaeology and anchored by two critical reflections, the volume is more than merely a survey of new technology, but stands as an enduring monument for a discipline undergoing rapid and dramatic changes.</p>
<p>Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future emerged from a workshop (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities) held in 2015 at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston that convened many of the leading practitioners of digital archaeology in the U.S. for a weekend of dialogue. The papers and conversations from this workshop formed the basis for the case studies presented in this volume and demonstrate the tremendous diversity in the digital tools used in archaeological field practice. From drones in the Andes to iPads at Pompeii, digital workflows in the American Southwest, and examples of bespoke, DIY, and commercial software, technology now provides solutions and crafts novel challenges for field archaeologists.</p>